By PHILIP BARKER Last weekend’s FA Cup ties were played to a finish with no replays after the Football Association decision took the decision ‘…
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Category: Regional newspapers
Oxford Mail sports editor Mark Edwards leaves after 21 years
Award-winning sports editor Mark Edwards leaves the Oxford Mail today after almost 21 years. Only last month an Edwards-led special project won the su…
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Derby Telegraph columnist Rippon axed after 20 years
LONG-serving SJA member and award-winning newspaper columnist Anton Rippon has been dropped by the paper for which he has written for the past 20 year…
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Birmingham Post & Mail man Mike Ward has died
Mike Ward, who covered tennis and football for the Birmingham Post and Mail for many years, has died just days before his 66th birthday after developi…
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John Wray, for 50 years a Leeds reporter, has died
Brian Clough famously spent just 44 days as Leeds manager. Sports journalist John Wray was covering the team's progress for 50 years…
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Trinity Mirror regional cuts signal move to web
The introduction of regional print production teams will see the axing of 78 jobs, though 44 jobs are to be created, many of them for the company's we…
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Sex sells – but can clickbait save local papers?
Turmoil at the top of the editorial staff of a leading regional newspaper has prompted its erstwhile editor to call for a campaign to save local journ…
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Section 40 could stop investigative journalism, says Sunday Times
In-depth reports such as its investigation into Tour de France drugs cheat Lance Armstrong would never have been published if legislation proposed by …
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Footballer looks to a future in the press box
ANTON RIPPON on how a footballer is working hard off the pitch for a possible new job in print …
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Football club asks: Is the weekly paper redundant?
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: And another football club decides it will ban reporters from its games and press conferences. ANTON RIPPON suggests that this …
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